Praying into a New Season

As we quickly approach the close of 2022 and prepare to welcome incoming President, Dr. Paul P. Cornelius, the leadership of William Carey International University would like to invite our esteemed colleagues, networks, family, and friends to join us in praying for our academic community as we continue to pursue greater flourishing in line with our vision statement.

Join us in praying for:

Openness in our hearts to receive what God is doing.

  • Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

  • Ps 139 23-24 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

A willingness to “Be Changed.” Ask God to make us like clay in HIs transformative hands.

  • Jeremiah 18:6 O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

  • Romans 12: 1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Courage to “Bring Change” and that each of us would contribute to the flourishing of our departments, spheres of influence, communities, cities, and nations.

  • Matt. 6:9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

Grace to engage with faith and wisdom in crucial conversations at the roots of human suffering around the globe.

  • James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

  • Phil 1:9-11 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”

Our Student Body

  • Eph 3:16-19 …that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

  • John 17:26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.

Our Alumni

  • Col 1:9-12 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

Our Institutes

  • 2 Cor 13:14 ..the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

  • Pray for our Institutes and their leaders by name.

    • Women’s Institute, Dr. Grace May

    • Institute of China Studies, Dr. Yalin Xin

    • Urban Leadership Institute, Dr. Viv Grigg

    • The Eden Vigil Institute for Adaptive Leadership and the Environment, Lowell Bliss

Our Faculty & staff

  • 1 Cor 1:4-8 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Col 4:2-4 …Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ…

Our Incoming President 

  • Eph 1:17-19 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us.

  • 1 Cor 1:4-8 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Thank you for praying with us! We believe that God is faithful to complete what He started with us! We pray that you also experience His faithfulness as you pray! Feel free to put your prayer in the comments below so we can agree together in unified prayer and thanksgiving.

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